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SALT LAKE CITY - It has just been over two weeks since Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham made the shocking announcement that 25-year old Brian Johnson would be taking over as offensive coordinator for the Utes.Even I had a hard time wrapping my mind around that for awhile. A kid, for all intents and purposes who is a year younger then I am, is taking the reigns of an offense of a Pac-12 team that has high postseason aspirations. While the sports media world had printed article after article saying what's good or bad about this hire, I avoided the knee jerk reaction and wanted to let it simmer for a while to see how I felt after it truly sunk in.
Initial reaction to the hire by myself: uncertainty. Even after the last couple of weeks, some of those feelings remain. Until we see the system that Johnson employs of the Utes and how successful it is going to be, uncertainty will be a very common feeling. However, after I got over the initial shock of the hire and I started to dissect it a little more in my mind, I really started to like the hire for a lot of reasons...
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